LAHORE: The Punjab University on Tuesday regularised the service of 169 employees working on daily wages, contract and ad hoc basis for the last five years.

PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Nasira Jabeen had granted approval on the recommendations of selection committee. The non-teaching employees who were regularised had fulfilled the eligibility criteria for the posts and had at least five years continuous service to their credit. The VC issued the notification and regularised the employees with immediate effect.

Moreover, the employees working on women, minority and special persons quotas have also been regularised. The appointees will have to submit their joining within seven days.

The university employees thanked the VC Dr Nasira Jabeen, Registrar Dr Khalid Khan and Additional Registrar-II Malik Muhammad Zaheer for their regularisation and resolving their long-standing issues.

Earlier, 600 employees were working on a contract basis at the PU and some 75 others were allegedly sacked after the Punjab Higher Education Department (HED) had written a letter to all the VCs of public universities raising questions on the hiring.

The PU administration under former Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Zakria Zakar had initiated the move to stop the renewal of contracts of non-teaching staff.

The contract employees, including those working on BPS-16 and 17, have been holding protests outside the vice chancellor’s office demanding renewal of their contracts. However, service of the employees working on BPS 16 and 17 has not been renewed yet.

MOU: The PU and MILLS Skills, a private organisatio, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for skills development and conduct awareness and assessment activities. The signing ceremony was held at VC office.

PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Nasira Jabeen, PU’s former Vice Chancellor and Managing Director MILLS Skills Lt Gen (r) Arshad Mahmood, Registrar Dr Muhammad Khalid Khan, Director External Linkages Dr Fauzia Hadi Ali and others were present on the occasion.

According to the MoU, both the parties would organise joint activities for creating critical and creative thinking skills, leadership competencies etc for the students.

RESULTS: PU Examinations Department has declared the results of Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm-D) first Professional, 2nd annual examination 2017. Detailed results are also available at PU website www.pu.edu.pk.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2018